nukecad
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3 hours ago, lmacri said:
Are you saying that having background updating enabled at General | Firefox Updates | Allow Firefox to | Automatically Install Update | When Firefox is Not Running so that Firefox updates in the background (i.e., even when Firefox.exe is not running and the browser is closed) can also trigger Firefox to clean items like your browsing and download history, cookies, cache, etc?
Depending on your settings, Firefox background updating will run on a schedule (so even if FFx is not open) and will download the files required to update Firefox.
Those files then run and update Firefox the next time that you launch it.
A similar thing happens if FFx is open, the automatic update setting will download the files in the background but won't install the update until next time you close-reopen FFx.
If you do manual updates instead then when you manually update it downloads the files and asks if you want to restart Firefox there and then.As part of the downloading of the update files some temporary files are also created (in the cache I think?) and it is those temporary files that CCleaner then finds to clean.
Which is what steve1209 says he was seeing, - CCleaner finding and cleaning temporary files created by scheduled background downloads of Firefox updates.
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If it's less than 90 days until the old one expires, and you used the same email address when buying them, then when you register the new one it should automatically add the remaining time to the new licence.
That automatic merging happens twice a day, so it may take a day for it to show up in your CCleaner.If it's more than 90 days, or if you used a different email, (or if they don't automatically merge for some other reason) then you can contact support by email at support@ccleaner.com and ask them for a 'licence merge'.
They do it quite a lot for people who purchase a new licence early to take advantage of a discount. -
There have been a few issues with the new directory structure, which have affected the Portable build in particular.
They are working on sorting it out for the portable, but in the meantime you may have noticed that CCleaner v6.00 does not have a portable build.
Hopefully the portable will be back, with the directory issues fixed, for v6.01.
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If you have a subscription for CCleaner Pro then it will renew automatically.
https://support.piriform.com/hc/en-us/articles/360020931731-How-do-subscription-licenses-work-There is no need to accept any offer, the offers will be just in case you do want to upgrade to Pro-Plus.
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If you have cancelled your subscription then you will still get a reminder when renewal is due so that you can renew manually.
If you want to reactivate it as a subscription then you should contact the support team by emai at support@ccleaner.com
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You will see them if you have used "winapp2.ini" to add extra custom cleaning rules to CCleaner.
Anything added to the cleaning list by winapp2 will have an asterisk following the name.
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Aren't those in File Explorer and not on the Taskbar?
Have you ticked "Recent Documents" in the same 'Windows Explorer' section of Custom Clean?
(If just that doesn't do the job then tick "Other Explorer MRUs" as well).And just to make doubly sure - you are using Custom Clean and not Health Check.
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If Firefox is installed then CCleaner will analyze it and say that it's analyzing it.
It will always analyze it just to see if you have been using it and if there is anything to clean.
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Drive wiping is something that you might do if you are selling or giving your drive/computer to someone else.
There isn't really any other reason or need to do a drive wipe.
It won't save any space, it won't speed up your computer in any way.A drive wipe overwrites the 'free' spaces on the drive that used to contain any files that you have deleted before giving it to someone else, and makes sure that the new owner can't use recovery software to see what was in those files.
If they try all they will get is a load of zeros (or maybe X's, or whatever other character the drive wiper has used).The MFT is the 'Master File Table' which contains a list of all the files on your computer.
It can sometimes still contain the names of files that you have deleted.
So wiping the MFT free space as well makes sure that any new owner can't even see the names of the files that you have deleted. -
Drives can become unrecognisable for a number of reasons.
I'm not sure what has happened to yours; but 3 passes of a 6TB drive would take a bit of time to complete and if something interrupted or stopped it during the process then the file table may have become scrambled. (Power outage?, turned off the computer before it had finished?)
Or it's even possible that the drive has simply failed. Drives do fail, and when they do it's often when some intensive writing is going on.
I do note that the 'My Book' range seems to require a seperate power source to USB, so that power supply may be something to check.
Try this 'quick fix' first:
- Unplug the drive from USB.
- Click Start and begin typing devmgmt.msc the search should show you the Device Maganer.
- Open Device Manager and expand Universal Serial Bus controllers.
- Right-click on the USB Root Hub and select Properties.
- Go to Power Management and uncheck Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power.
- Do a Restart of the computer, reconnect the WD external hard drive and check if if it's now being seen.
(Sometimes all it takes is unplugging the drive, Restarting the computer, replugging the drive - but it's worth doing the Device Manager setting as well).
If that doesn't work then try the fixes given here: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/external-drive-not-recognized-this-is-how-to-fix-it-in-windows/
Presumably as you were wiping the drive then there is no data on it that you want to keep?
That should make things easier and it may just need reformatting.However if Windows can't see the drive at all then it can't format it.
WD do their own formatting tool for for external USB drives which may give you a shot: https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=34PS. I've had it in the past that when Windows could not see a drive to format/partition it a 3rd party partition manager could do it, and once done Windows then had no issue seeing it again.
(Personally I prefer 'MiniTool Partition Wizard', there are others available).Just in case you need any other WD utilities for the drive: https://support-en.wd.com/app/products/product-detail/p/119#WD_downloads
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I'd forgotten CCleaner was on the MS Store. (Not a place I go unless I really have to).
Must try to remember it's another option for anyone having install problems.
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We recommend that you don't regularly use the (any) Registry Cleaner with Windows 10, only use it if you have a specific problem.
Windows 10 changes the registry often which can give false results.For the official Piriform advice on using the Registry Cleaner see this: https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/59952-i-get-a-registry-error-on-ccleaner-on-windows-10-i-have-scanned-5-times/?tab=comments#comment-326804
Here is Microsofts stance on using any Registry Cleaner:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/2563254/microsoft-support-policy-for-the-use-of-registry-cleaning-utilities -
CCleaner is not an antivirus/antimalware app. (It's a junk file cleaner)
You need to scan with a AV/AM if you want to check if a file is safe.
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Agreed, intetesting.
Guess I need to look again at wear levelling. (or maybe at where defragmenters get their information from, which of course may/will be different for different defragmenters).
Although, as I said in a different thread. I've come to the opinion that defragmenting of any drive is not realy needed (and hasn't been for a couple of decades).
If you didn't have a defragmenter showing you a drive map you would never notice any difference in performance - which is one reason why the built in Windows tool no longer shows you a drive map.
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One thing with SSDs is that, along with Trim and Garbage Collection, they use 'wear levelling'. It's built into the drive.
That spreads data writes about the drive so that all parts of it get used (worn) at about the same rate, rather than one part getting more heavily used than the rest.
To a defragmenting programme wear levelling is fragmentation - but with a SSD it's fragmentation that you want to happen to prolong the life of the drive.
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I think it's inevitable.
Spinning discs for home use are going the same way that floppys did.
It won't be long before before every home computer will come with a SSD as standard, and it will only be enthusiasts that still have spinners, and those mainly as external drives.
A lot of new laptops don't have much of a storage drive at all, they have a drive for the OS (usually a SSD) and store your data in the cloud.
So the mass market for defragmenters is dwindling fast.
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That does make sense, and isn't a screw up as such, Windows is doing it like that for a reason.
The reg entry for Local_Machine is showing 3.3.3, because that will be the first/last version that you installed on the machine from scratch and you've been updating since.
The reg entry for Current_User is showing 3.4.2 because it knows you have updated as that user.
Although I've never had reason to do it, is possible for different user accounts to have the same software installed, each one a seperate full install for that user with their own settings/customisations.
So it's possible for different users to have different versions of the same software installed.
Which explains why the registry shows it like that, it could be a different version for each 'Current_User'.It also explains how uninstalling/reinstalling would/should do the trick, the reg entry for Local_Machine would/should then show the version of the new 'install from scratch'.
ie. The uninstall would remove those reg entries, the reinstall would make new ones with the newly installed version.
(Any user who did have their own seperate version installed in their own account should retain that version, it wouldn't have been uninstalled).So it seems that the CCleaner uninstall tool is reading what Windows says is/was installed on the machine, and not what is installed for a particular user.
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Ha, sorry I thought this was a current problem.
It's just a bit unusual for someone to be posting about an issue that they were having 2 years ago but not now.
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25 minutes ago, qeamer said:
i do believe its the Clean function which does it. Even with steam option unticket.
Just jumping in to check something.
You're not unticking the Steam option and then running Health Check are you?
The ticks/unticks only apply to Custom Clean.
Health Check ignores any ticks/unticks.As Dave also hints, stop using the registry cleaner and see if your problem stops then.
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The DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN error that you are getting is apparently a common Chrome error.
See here for a step by step of how to fix it: https://nestify.io/blog/the-easy-guide-to-fix-dns_probe_finished_nxdomain-error/
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It's possibly because they have released 3 version updates in the last 5 days - 3.4, 3.4.1, & 3.4.2
When they are popping out new versions almost daily it can be difficult for everyone else to keep up with the changes.
https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/docs/Version-historyCCleaner will be reading the Sumatra version number from Windows, so presumably Windows hasn't updated that information yet.
I wouldn't worry, if you use the Uninstall tool it will call whatever 'uninstal.exe' Sumatra have put in their own programme folder.
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Your first change should have done the job for the specific "other MRU's" message so that it now shows again when needed.
The second one you changed (ShowCleanWarning) is for the message that pops up each and every time you do a Custom Clean.
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I don't know how I can explain it any more clearly than I did above.
All 4 conditions must be met for the message to pop up, if any single one of them isn't met then it won't show.
And v6.00.9727 on my machines are clean installs not updates, I never update I always do a new install.
(Unless for some reason I'm testing the update function itself).In fact I do more clean installs than most users as I'm regularly changing settings, etc. and often installing/uninstalling different versions to check out things that are brought up on this forum.
Once I've finished testing I'll do a clean install of the current version and apply my regular settings.Cleaning of 'Other Explorer MRUs' is behaving exactly as I described above on both of my laptops, how do you think I got that screenshot?
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the OP did mention the warning message where they said that they checked the box for "do not show me this message again." apparently the warning message popped up, for them.
The warning message that the OP got about Explorer MRUs was the one I screen-shotted in my last post.
Nothing was mentioned about a 'Restart' message until you mentioned it yourself.Quoteon my computer, with ccleaner build 6.00.9727, when i enable "clean other explorer MRUs," the warning message, saying "windows explorer needs to be closed to clean other explorer MRUs," is not popping up. this seems to be a bug.
You will only see that message if you have some other MRUs to be cleaned, and if have Custom Clean set to clean them, and if Explorer needs to be closed to clean them, and if you haven't previously told Custom Clean not to show the message again.
It takes all 4 of those conditions to be met before you will see that message.Incidentally, that screenshot above was taken from this laptop on Monday minutes before I posted it, so yes the warning is working as it should if all 4 conditions are met.
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Can you give more details, and maybe a screenshot, of just what you are seeing?